These Are My People: The Merle Kilgore Story

by Mark Rickert

Overview

Mark Rickert, the grandson of Merle Kilgore, a country music legend and part of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, showcases some of the amazing stories of Merle's life with people like Hank Williams Sr., Webb Pierce, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, Jr. and more..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608081738
Publisher:	WriteLife Publishing
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Mark Rickert grew up in a country music household, just a few miles from the Opryland USA Theme Park and the Grand Ole Opry, and only a block from the home of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager. Mark's father even worked as a Nashville tour guide. But it was his grandfather Merle Kilgore who showed him backstoage to the business. Before publishing his first novel, The Tone Poet, Mark served eight years as a photo-journalist for the US Army Reserve, spending a year of that service in Baghdad, Iraq, writing for military publications. In 2008 he earned a Master's in English Literature from Middle Tennessee State University. Today, he works as chief of public affairs for an Army recruiting battalion. Mark lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife and two children. These Are My People is his second book.